Ventoy

Short description: Live USB Bootloader

Ventoy

Ventoy 1.0.54

Developer(s)| Hailong Sun
Initial release| 5 April 2020
Operating system| Cross-platform (Windows, Linux)
License| GPLv3+ License

Ventoy is a free and open-source utility used for writing image files such as .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), and .efi files onto storage media to create bootable USB flash drives. Once Ventoy is installed onto a USB drive, there is no need to reformat the disk to update it with new installation files; it is enough to copy the .iso, .wim, .img, .img(x), or .efi file(s) to the USB drive and boot from them directly.[1][2][3] Ventoy will present the user with a boot menu to select one of these files.

## Contents

* 1 Features
* 2 pre-installed Plugins
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Features

Ventoy can be installed on a USB flash drive, local disk, SSD (NVMe), or SD card and it will directly boot from the selected .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), or .efi file(s) added. Ventoy does not extract the image file(s) to the USB drive, but uses them directly. It is possible to place multiple ISO images on a single device and select the image to boot from the menu displayed just after Ventoy boots.

MBR and GPT partition styles, x86 Legacy BIOS and various UEFI boot methods (including persistence) are supported. ISO files larger than 4 GB can be used. Ventoy supports various operating system boot and installation ISO files including Windows 7 and above, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Fedora and more than a hundred other Linux distributions; various Unix releases, VMware, Citrix XenServer, etc. have also been tested.[4]

## pre-installed Plugins

* Global Control Plugin
* Password Plugin
* Driver Update Disk Plugin
* Boot Conf Replace Plugin
* Auto Memdisk Plugin
* Windows Vhdboot Plugin
* Wimboot Plugin
* Persistence Plugin
* Auto Installation Plugin
* Menu Extension Plugin
* Menu Tip Plugin
* Menu Alias Plugin
* Menu Class Plugin
* Theme Plugin
* Injection Plugin

Global Control Plugin This plugin is used to make some global settings for Ventoy.

Password Plugin With this plugin we can set a password for Ventoy or for an ISO at boot time. when booting. This is a very simple password function.

Driver Update Disk Plugin This plugin offers a very simple way of integrating the DUD files.

Boot Conf Replace Plugin When we boot some Linux distributions, sometimes we need to add the boot options for specific hardware or another purpose. This can be done with the "Configuration Replace Plug-in".

Auto Memdisk Plugin With this plugin you can set the memdisk mode for some ISO/IMG files files and Ventoy will always use the memdisk mode to boot them.

Windows Vhdboot Plugin Ventoy uses this plugin to boot VHD(x) files. It supports both Legacy BIOS and UEFI.

Wimboot Plugin Ventoy uses this plugin to boot WIM files (Legacy BIOS + UEFI).

Persistence Plugin This plug-in makes it possible to save all changes you make to the live system so that they are still available the next time you start the system.

Auto Installation Plugin Many Linux distributions offer unattended installation. You only need to specify a script for the installation to install an ISO automatically.

Menu Extension Plugin Since Ventoy is based on grub2, you can define your own grub2 menu in a cfg- file and load it.

Menu Tip Plugin With this plugin you can set a tip for the ISOs. This message is displayed when you select an ISO.

Menu Alias Plugin With this plugin you can define an alias for the ISO/WIM files. The alias is only used to display it in the boot menu.

Menu Class Plugin With this Ventoy plugin you can define a class for the ISO files and display an icon in the boot menu.

Theme Plugin Ventoy is based on grub2, so all grub2 themes can be used on Ventoy.

Injection Plugin With this plugin you can install some files (e.g. drivers/scripts ...). For Windows, this is the WinPE environment. For Linux this is the initramfs- environment.

## See also

* List of tools to create Live USB systems

## References

1. ↑ Langner, Christopher. "Tutorial - Ventoy". Linux New Media USA. https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/243/Saving-Steps.
2. ↑ "Bootable USB Creator Ventoy Gets A Native GUI For Linux". https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/09/bootable-usb-creator-ventoy-gets-native.html.
3. ↑ "You may now use Ventoy without deleting data on USB Sticks". https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/11/you-may-now-use-ventoy-without-deleting-data-on-usb-sticks/.
4. ↑ "List Of Tested ISOs". https://www.ventoy.net/en/isolist.html. Retrieved 2021-03-09.

## External links

* on GitHub
* Softpedia: Ventoy
* Linux Uprising Blog on Ventoy

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